Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Try to limit sodium consumption to less than 2,000 mg a day. Your choices are easier when you know the salt content of various seasonings. Some useful comparisons:
• Sea salt, 1 teaspoon: 2,360 mg sodium
• Low-sodium tamari, 1 teaspoon: 700 mg sodium
• Bragg Liquid Aminos, 1 teaspoon: 233 mg sodium
• South River Sweet White Miso, 1 teaspoon: 115 mg sodium
It is helpful to keep breakfast and lunch simple—and nearly the same every day. Specific recipes follow in the chapters ahead, but there are lots of useful ways to think about putting them together. |
Jack Challem
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 Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup provides a whopping 890 mg of sodium per serving and 2,225 grams of sodium for a standard 10.75-ounce can. sodium, of course, may contribute to high blood pressure, and some research suggests that excess salt is a factor in osteoporosis and prediabetes. Therefore, it is best to limit your salt intake, so reject high-sodium foods.
Potassium
Some, but not all, products list the amount of potassium. Potassium is an important nutrient, and it can counter many of the effects of excessive sodium. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Nutrition Solution : A Drug-Free 30 Day Plan
"Sodium benzoate sodium benzoate is used as a preservative (microbial control) in foods, including soft drinks, fruit juices, margarine, confections, pickles, and jams. sodium preservatives add sodium to the diet and reduce the availability of potassium. Some reported reactions to sodium benzoate include recurring urticaria (rash), asthma, and eczema. |
Jack Challem
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| Sodium, of course, may contribute to high blood pressure, and some research suggests that excess salt is a factor in osteoporosis and prediabetes. Therefore, it is best to limit your salt intake, so reject high-sodium foods.
Potassium
Some, but not all, products list the amount of potassium. Potassium is an important nutrient, and it can counter many of the effects of excessive sodium. When the Nutrition Facts indicate that potassium is present, it's a plus. It's even better when the food contains more potassium than sodium.
Total Carbohydrate
Don't let the word total mislead you. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 My advice goes much further than that though, and that is: never eat foods containing simple sodium or sodium chloride (processed salt). sodium chloride is not real salt.
If you're going to use salt at the dinner table or in cooking, go out and get yourself some ocean salt, or what is sometimes called "Celtic salt" or "Sea salt." That is, you want actual salt from the ocean, which is quite complex in its molecular structure. It has a great number of elements -- far more than just sodium and chloride -- and has a far different effect on your body than sodium chloride. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Nutrition Solution : A Drug-Free 30 Day Plan
"Sodium benzoate sodium benzoate is used as a preservative (microbial control) in foods, including soft drinks, fruit juices, margarine, confections, pickles, and jams. sodium preservatives add sodium to the diet and reduce the availability of potassium. Some reported reactions to sodium benzoate include recurring urticaria (rash), asthma, and eczema. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The highly carcinogenic ingredient sodium nitrite, for example, sounds perfectly innocent, but it is well documented to cause brain tumors, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and many other cancers (just search Google Scholar for sodium nitrite to see a long list of supporting research, or click here to read NewsTarget articles on sodium nitrite).
Carmine sounds like an innocent food coloring, but it's actually made from the smashed bodies of red cochineal beetles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It has a great number of elements -- far more than just sodium and chloride -- and has a far different effect on your body than sodium chloride. In fact, sodium chloride could quite accurately be called a poison in sufficient doses. Each separate element is quite clearly a poison: sodium and chloride. But when combined, they create table salt that many in the nutritional wellness community also consider to be a toxin to the body.
So, avoiding salt is critical. And by the way, one of the most important strategies for doing that is to avoid eating at restaurants. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Many doctors warn their patients to stay away from sodium and sodium-rich foods. However, to live a salt-free life means that you will suffer an increased risk of mineral and trace mineral deficiencies, as well as numerous related complications. Eating unrefined salt fulfills the body's need for salt without upsetting the hydroelectrolytic balance. If your diet contains a goodly amount of potassium in natural form, you should have no concern about being harmed by the relatively small amount of sodium in real sea salt. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If our national leaders really want health care reform, they should outlaw known cancer-causing chemicals like sodium nitrite, sodium benzoate, artificial food colors, aspartame, monosodium glutamate and others.
After all, we're talking about health care costs here, right? How much financial sense does it make to allow food companies to poison the population, and then have to foot the bill for treating all the resulting diseases from that poison? This financial burden really belongs with the food companies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If there had been such a label, the line for sodium might have read: sodium 25,000% - enough to power chemical rocket motors at NASA.
At this point, I was pretty sure that the anti-vegetarian food pervert who spiked my potato salad with bacon also had control of the Whole Foods salt supply and was madly dashing about the kitchen, shirking mounds of sodium into recipes that otherwise would have been perfectly fine to eat.
Funny math at Whole Foods
Fortunately, I also purchased a container of fresh fruit, which helped counteract the salt assault of the soup. (Kind of a tongue twister there. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It also demonstrated a lower rate of leukemia, which is an interesting finding given that so many children today still eat hot dogs laced with cancer-causing sodium nitrite (a chemical added by junk food companies to turn the meat red), and sodium nitrite causes leukemia and brain tumors, among other cancers. You can read more about the dangers of sodium nitrite by clicking here.
Aloe vera ends acid reflux disease
Acid reflux isn't really a disease. The drug companies just call it that to convince everyone that they need to take medications to ease the symptoms. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It has a great number of elements -- far more than just sodium and chloride -- and has a far different effect on your body than sodium chloride. In fact, sodium chloride could quite accurately be called a poison in sufficient doses. Each separate element is quite clearly a poison: sodium and chloride. But when combined, they create table salt that many in the nutritional wellness community also consider to be a toxin to the body.
So, avoiding salt is critical. And by the way, one of the most important strategies for doing that is to avoid eating at restaurants. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The highly carcinogenic ingredient sodium nitrite, for example, sounds perfectly innocent, but it is well documented to cause brain tumors, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and many other cancers (just search Google Scholar for sodium nitrite to see a long list of supporting research, or click here to read NewsTarget articles on sodium nitrite).
Carmine sounds like an innocent food coloring, but it's actually made from the smashed bodies of red cochineal beetles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If our national leaders really want health care reform, they should outlaw known cancer-causing chemicals like sodium nitrite, sodium benzoate, artificial food colors, aspartame, monosodium glutamate and others.
After all, we're talking about health care costs here, right? How much financial sense does it make to allow food companies to poison the population, and then have to foot the bill for treating all the resulting diseases from that poison? This financial burden really belongs with the food companies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The highly carcinogenic ingredient sodium nitrite, for example, sounds perfectly innocent, but it is well documented to cause brain tumors, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and many other cancers (just search Google Scholar for sodium nitrite to see a long list of supporting research, or click here to read NewsTarget articles on sodium nitrite).
Carmine sounds like an innocent food coloring, but it's actually made from the smashed bodies of red cochineal beetles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Well, let's say that for ten years, somebody feeds all the kids sodium nitrite and cancer rates skyrocket. Then, they take all the sodium nitrite out of the food and replace it with a different cancer-causing chemical that they keep feeding the kids. Guess what? The cancer rates don't come down. Therefore, the logic goes, sodium nitrite didn't cause cancer in the first place!
Notice that when mercury was removed from vaccines (which is not entirely true, by the way, bringing into question yet more details about this study), the rates of autism did not drop? |
Charles Barber
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 They have been putting "Heavy Sodium" in the drinking water to numb out the population and make it, supposedly, happy and content. Dr. More uncovers the conspiracy, stops the placement of Heavy sodium in the water supply, and thereby returns his patients to normal—their vitality, as well as their troubles, restored. In the place of Heavy sodium, Dr. More calls for an authentic unmedicated human experience, however painful it may at times be. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Be careful however, a large discrepancy exists between the terms "less sodium," "low sodium," and the real meaning of low sodium. Most table salt is depleted of vital minerals and contains harmful additives such as aluminum silicate or corn sugar (both of which are toxic to the body) to prevent it from clumping.
Natural salts (such as "sea salt") are now being marketed as a replacement to table salt but most of these salts are also partially refined. |
Hyla Cass
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 Nutrients depleted: Thiazide diuretics deplete magnesium, potassium, zinc, sodium, and CoQ10.
Needed supplements: Magnesium (250-500 mg), potassium (100 mg), zinc (25 mg), and CoQ10 (100-300 mg).
Caution: sodium is abundant in most modern diets but if you've been on a sodium-restricted diet, you could run into problems. Speak to your doctor about your adding salt back, in as natural a form as possible, such as sea salt.
LOOP DIURETICS: bumetanide (Burinex), furosemide (Lasix), and torasemide (Torem)
This class of drugs is used to reduce blood pressure. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It also demonstrated a lower rate of leukemia, which is an interesting finding given that so many children today still eat hot dogs laced with cancer-causing sodium nitrite (a chemical added by junk food companies to turn the meat red), and sodium nitrite causes leukemia and brain tumors, among other cancers. You can read more about the dangers of sodium nitrite by clicking here.
Aloe vera ends acid reflux disease
Acid reflux isn't really a disease. The drug companies just call it that to convince everyone that they need to take medications to ease the symptoms. |
David R. Montgomery
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 California's soils were rich in sodium sulfate and sodium carbonate, whereas seawater was enriched in sodium chloride. The salts in the soil were weathering out of rocks, dissolving in soil water, and then teptecipitating where the water evaporated. He teasoned that drier areas had saltier soil because rain sank into the ground and evapotated in the soil. So just as greater rainfall leached rhe alkali from the soil, repeated flooding could flush salts from the ground.
Collaborating with farmers eager to improve their land, Hilgard also advocated mulching to reduce evaporation of soil moisrure. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| Nutrients depleted: Thiazide diuretics deplete magnesium, potassium, zinc, sodium, and CoQ10-
Needed supplements: Magnesium (250-500 mg), potassium (100 mg), zinc (25 mg), and CoQ10 (100-300 mg).
Caution: sodium is abundant in most modern diets but if you've been on a sodium-restricted diet, you could run into problems. Speak to your doctor about your adding salt back, in as natural a form as possible, such as sea salt. loop diuretics: bumetanide (Burinex), furosemide (Lasix), and torasemide (Torem)
This class of drugs is used to reduce blood pressure. |
David R. Montgomery
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| California's soils were rich in sodium sulfate and sodium carbonate, whereas seawater was enriched in sodium chloride. The salts in the soil were weathering out of rocks, dissolving in soil water, and then teptecipitating where the water evaporated. He teasoned that drier areas had saltier soil because rain sank into the ground and evapotated in the soil. So just as greater rainfall leached rhe alkali from the soil, repeated flooding could flush salts from the ground.
Collaborating with farmers eager to improve their land, Hilgard also advocated mulching to reduce evaporation of soil moisrure. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 If you have seen a magazine advertisement for Aleve, or bought a generic form of it at the drugstore, you probably encountered another name for the same thing: naproxen sodium. Naproxen sodium is the common name or generic name.
Chemists also need a more complicated name (for some very good reasons which we won't discuss). Whatever you are inclined to call it, the chemists' systematic name for Aleve is sodium (S)-(+)-6-meth-oxy-a-methylnapthaleneacetate. Obviously this is a mouthful; this name represents yet another kind of chemical symbolism. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sodium nitrite, for example, has been irrefutably shown to cause pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, leukemia and brain tumors in children, and yet the FDA looks the other way while processed meat manufacturers continue to add sodium nitrite to meat products sold throughout the country.
What about all the children eating hot dogs and getting brain tumors from the highly carcinogenic nitrosamines created by eating such foods? No problem: Blame China! |
| Specifically, the FDA currently allows known cancer-causing chemicals to be widely used in both foods and drugs. sodium nitrite, for example, has been irrefutably shown to cause pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, leukemia and brain tumors in children, and yet the FDA looks the other way while processed meat manufacturers continue to add sodium nitrite to meat products sold throughout the country.
What about all the children eating hot dogs and getting brain tumors from the highly carcinogenic nitrosamines created by eating such foods? No problem: Blame China! |
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